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"When he graduated from Harvard Medical School, Jim O'Connell was asked by the medical school Dean to spend one year setting up a program to care for the homeless population in Boston. It became Jim O'Connell's life calling, to help people known as "rough sleepers." For the past three decades, Dr. O'Connell has run the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program, which he helped to create. Affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, the program...
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Get the Summary of Tracy Kidder's Rough Sleepers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Tracy Kidder has been described by The Baltimore Sun as a "master of the nonfiction narrative." In Rough Sleepers, Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story of Dr. Jim O'Connell, a gifted man who invented ways to create a community of care for a city's unhoused population,...
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Women's rough sleeping is a major issue across Europe and is especially problematic within the current economic climate. Based on a European Union DAPHNE III-funded project, this important book tells the story of the women and organisations that took part in the study. Revealing a number of truths about women's rough sleeping across Europe, the authors argue that there is little or no specific provision for this vulnerable and hard to reach group....
4) Summary of Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Ho
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DISCLAIMERThis book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.Summary of Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people IN THIS SUMMARIZED BOOK, YOU WILL GET:Chapter astute outline of the main contents.Fast & simple understanding of the content analysis.Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original bookTracy...
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Kicked, spat at, sleeping rough isn't the kind of life Darren wants, but he has no option. Fate dealt him a bad hand and there is, nothing he can do about it. None of it is his fault; not losing his job, nor getting, evicted. What did he do to deserve any of this? A chance meeting with a Good Samaritan makes him sit up and take stock, but is it too late to turn things around? Only time will tell.
6) Bedding Down
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When a homeless man is brutally murdered Adam, Sarah and the team are led into the world of rough sleepers. A dark secret from the past binds four men together, it made them walk away from their lives and families, now someone has found them and that someone will stop at nothing to make them pay.There's nowhere left to hide..............
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DI Vicky is a headstrong and sharp-tongued detective, given the cases nobody wants to touch. When handed a seemingly insignificant investigation involving missing rough sleepers, her instinct drives her to uncover the truth, regardless of the risks. With her, a newly transferred detective sergeant with his own personal demons, resulting in a captivating dynamic relationship.While the world disregards the plight of these forgotten individuals, Vicky's...
8) False Name
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Bea's life is turned upside down when a man is left for dead outside her agency office in this gripping mystery.
Bea Abbot overhears three men plotting a murder outside her garage, only to discover the intended victim – a young man who appears to be a rough sleeper – has been left there to die in freezing weather. Somewhat reluctantly, she gives him sanctuary but finds him unwilling to disclose his name or talk about his ordeal.
Who is determined...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The Great Western Railway made it all the way to Penzance in 1867, crossing the Tamar River on the Cornwall-Devon border. The line breached the ungoverned spaces between Cornwall and the rest of England and brought some of the earliest tourists to the county.
#2 The end of the line is used to explain the high numbers of rough sleepers in the area: people end up here...
10) On Eden Street
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"He might be a nobody, but he was their nobody and their first case."
The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop doorway. It happens, someone says, he isn't the first to die on the streets and he won't be the last, but the story the new team begins to uncover is far...
11) Counter Culture
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Customer service has never been this personal.
Robin Christopher, beleaguered retail worker, isn't having an easy November. His boss is raising stress levels planning a Black Friday to end all Black Fridays, his family doesn't understand him, and his best friend thinks his new crush is a hallucination brought on by watching too many episodes of Doctor Who.
Archie Levine dresses in Victorian style and divides his time between caring for his young son...
12) Dead of Night
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A victim with no voice.... A killer with no fear.... A race against time.
When the body of a homeless man is found at the foot of a church steeple in the middle of the harshest winters Cardiff has seen for years Inspector Marco's superior wants the inquiry finished quickly. Even if it means the killer evades justice. But Marco isn't happy and he knows from bitter personal experience how tough life can be.
A second killing of a rough sleeper only galvanises...
13) Brenton
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Brenton was more than just a tattoo artist. He was a great artist. He'd won awards for his tattoos world over. But there was more to the vampire than just another artist in a sea of artists. He cared deeply for those around him. He would spend nights on the street taking care of the rough sleepers and the rejected. He would protect the sex workers and the drug addicted. He would do what he could to get them off the streets and healthy.
Hendrix had...
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This is a story that the charities don't want you to read. This is the fate that can befall any of us that you don't want to acknowledge. For years you have passed them on the streets, as much a part of your routine as your morning shower, your half-hearted scan of the world's news-fake or otherwise-and the barista who artistically crafts the £4 cappuccino with soya milk, three drops of vanilla, and a flutter of chocolate sprinkles that has to be...
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©2011
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xiii, 613 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Product Description: Which species of sharks live within 500 nautical miles of North American shores, and what do we know about them? Jose I. Castro's The Sharks of North America is the first comprehensive book in sixty years to address these questions, and it does so with unrivaled authority and aesthetic detail. The 135 comprehensive species accounts summarize the present knowledge. Each begins with the etymology of a species' common and scientific...
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